New Zealand national champion Joe Cooper of IsoWhey Sports-Swisswellness fended off the whole peloton for the last twelve kilometers to claim the conclusive stage ahead of Emils Liepins (Delko Marseille) and Andriy Kulyk (Kolss) in Wanning Xinglong. Neo pro Jacopo Mosca (Wilier Triestina) took his first ever stage race victory despite losing the support of five-time stage winner Jakub Mareczko who sustained a flat tyre with 10km to go.

Cooper rode away from the bunch to win the KOM price at the two cat. 3 climbs at km 40.9 and 43.7 with his team-mate Sam Crome coming twice second and thus securing the polka dot jersey. Cooper got reeled in at km 60 but went again with Alexis Cartier (H&R Block), Rob Stannard (Mitchelton-Scott) and Ulises Castillo (Jelly Belly). As a crucial intermediate sprint was looming at km 91, the quartet got pulled back and GC contenders Liepins, Myhkaylo Kononenko (Kolss) and Marco Zanotti (Monkey Town) sprinted in that order to catch three, two and one seconds bonus respectively.

Cartier, Cuesta and Gordian Banzer (Switzerland) went on the move, rejoined by Simion, Michael Sheehan (Jelly Belly) and Reinier Honig (Vorarlberg). Wilier led the peloton and the breakaway only enjoyed 35 seconds lead with 55km to go. Attacking machine Cartier went alone with 45km to go. Cartier and Sheehan led with 15km to go but as they got reeled in, Cooper escaped 12km before the end.

Mosca closely watched an attack by Marc De Maar (Hengxiang), but Mareczko’s puncture 10km before the end disturbed the plans of Wilier Triestina and their opponents. Cooper stayed away while the peloton was sprinting right behind him, Liepins taking the second place that propelled him into third overall behind Mosca and Benjamin Prades (Ukyo).

Post race quotes:

Overall winner Jacopo Mosca: “I still can’t believe that I’ve won the Tour of Hainan. I have to thank all my team-mates because today again they’ve been fabulous. It’s a great emotion. It’ll take some time for me to realize what happened. Going for the time bonuses, [Marco] Zanotti and [Mykhaylo] Kononenko have made me sweat until the very end. The overall classification being so tight, it was normal. Looking back, had I gained a bit more time in stage 7, I would have been more serene today. Unfortunately, today we also had the card of the sprint to play with Kuba [Mareczko] but he punctured with ten kilometers to go. We’ve been unlucky because had he been able to sprint, we could have relied on him for taking the time bonuses. But luckily, one rider went solo and collected the ten seconds of the win that were precious. He made a very strong action. I’ll always remember my win here. It’ll remain my first one as a pro. But I’ll remain a team player, ready to work for other, and hopefully I’ll find a few more occasions in my career to get a result like this one.”

Stage 9 winner Joe Cooper: “We didn’t really want a bunch kick because we didn’t have any sprinter in our team today. We sort of invent a solo breakaway that was about twelve k long. I managed to hold on and avoid the bunch kick. We got the job done, which our sprinters [Anthony Giacoppo and Michael Freiberg who were no longer in the race] were philandering a bit. Hopefully I’ve showed them how to do it next time… This win is right up there [in my career achievements] with winning the New Zealand champion jersey twice. The Tour of Hainan is a H.C. race. It’s the highest level of racing we get to do, so to win a stage, especially the last stage after nine days, this capped off my season. I’m looking forward to lying on a beach on the Gold Coast after this.”

Second placed Emils Liepins: “I’m not as disappointed as yesterday for missing out on the stage win because the time bonus of the second place puts me third in GC. I think it’s very good because the Tour of Hainan also features a mountain stage and I’m a sprinter. It means I’ve had a good race overall. I’m happy with that. We thought we were going to catch the breakaway rider but this guy [Joe Cooper] is very fast. I was just a little bit too late to pass him. I want to thank the team. They did a really good job to help me get this result. I hope it’ll help me find a team for next year.”

Third placed Andriy Kulyk: “To finish in the podium is always nice. But we had a different plan. We wanted to get Kononenko in the top 3 of the stage to get the time bonus to make the final podium overall but we lost him in the last corner so I had to do the sprint. The Tour of Hainan is the best race I’ve done this season.”

Points classification winner Jakub Mareczko: “We started the last stage with the intention of keeping the yellow jersey. That was our only intention. We wanted to let a breakaway go to keep the race quiet behind. We wouldn’t have tried to close on the breakaway. But it hasn’t gone according to plans. From the first to the last kilometer, our rivals have put our lead in danger. I’ve also been unlucky in the finale. At the end, we got what we were looking for, so even though I had a flat tyre and couldn’t contest the stage win, it’s been a perfect day for us. Our performance at the Tour of Hainan overall is more than positive, but beyond my personal results that are great with five stage wins and the green jersey, we’ve demonstrated to be very competitive and united as a team. It’s beautiful to win the overall with a rider [Jacopo Mosca] who has given me a hand for winning the early stages. As soon as he got his opportunity, he arrived at the front with the best riders. It’s a great outcome for me and for the team. We’ve just finished the 2017 season. It’s too early to think about the race program for next year but the Tour of Hainan is a wonderful race. We feel very well here. The climate is great, very hot [unlike in Europe]. I’d love to come back for sure.”

King of the Mountain Sam Crome: “On stage 7, we wanted to look for a breakaway to target the KOM jersey, which we managed and then, we just had to defend it in the last two days. We had no sprinters today so it worked out perfect. Joe went up the road and took the maximum points in the hills. Once I got two second places, I knew I’d wrapped it up. Then Joe went solo and topped the day off for the team. I actually crashed twice, on stage 1 and stage 5 as well. I had a bit of a rough round but luckily, it only took some skin off so I was still able to ride. Hopefully we’ll get invited back again to the Tour of Hainan. The team pushed really hard to get a start here. I think we’ve not only repaid the faith to the team but to the organizers as well.”

Best Asian rider Liu Jianpeng: “I think I need more jerseys and results in top 10 to become a star in cycling. Having the blue jersey during this race has increased my confidence for this Tour of Hainan and for the future. I’d love to ride at a higher level like Wang Meiyin with Bahrain-Merida now, but before I reach this level, I need to do more races.”

Complete results:

153.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.679 km/hr

1

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

3hr 31min 16sec

2

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

@ 1sec

3

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

4

Dylan Page

Switzerland

s.t.

5

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

s.t.

6

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

s.t.

7

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

8

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Menton

s.t.

9

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

s.t.

10

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

11

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

12

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

s.t.

13

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

14

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

15

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

16

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

s.t.

17

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

18

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

19

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Menton

s.t.

20

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

21

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

s.t.

22

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

23

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

s.t.

24

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

25

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

26

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

27

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

s.t.

28

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

s.t.

29

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

s.t.

30

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

31

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

32

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

33

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

34

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

s.t.

35

Joonas Henttala

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

36

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

s.t.

37

Umberto Poli

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

38

Benjamín Prades

Team Ukyo

s.t.

39

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

40

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

41

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

s.t.

42

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

s.t.

43

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

44

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

45

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

46

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

47

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

s.t.

48

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

s.t.

49

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

s.t.

50

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

+11''

51

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

+14''

52

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

53

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

+19''

54

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

+29''

55

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang Cycling

+35''

56

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

57

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS

s.t.

58

Sam Brand

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

59

Bo Wang

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

60

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

61

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

+1' 00''

62

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

+1' 03''

63

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

+1' 21''

64

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

65

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

+2' 07''

66

Cristián Peña

RTS-Menton

+2' 13''

67

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

68

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

s.t.

69

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

s.t.

70

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

71

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

72

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

73

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

74

Reid McClure

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

75

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

s.t.

76

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

s.t.

77

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

78

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

79

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

s.t.

80

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

81

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

82

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

s.t.

83

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

84

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

85

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

+2' 24''

86

Hang Shi

Giant

+3' 51''

87

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+6' 05''

88

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+7' 55''

89

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

90

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

91

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

Final GC after Stage 9:

1,571.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.82 km/hr

1

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

36hr 41min 27sec

2

Benjamín Prades

Team Ukyo

@ 3sec

3

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

+5''

4

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

+6''

5

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

6

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang Cycling

+8''

7

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang Cycling

+15''

8

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

+20''

9

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

10

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

+21''

11

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

12

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

13

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

14

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

15

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

16

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

+25''

17

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

+30''

18

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

+52''

19

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

+57''

20

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

+1' 28''

21

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

+1' 52''

22

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

+1' 54''

23

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

+1' 55''

24

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

+2' 04''

25

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

+3' 06''

26

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

+3' 20''

27

Bo Wang

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

28

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

+3' 28''

29

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

+3' 42''

30

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

31

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

+4' 16''

32

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang Cycling

+4' 26''

33

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

+4' 58''

34

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

+5' 48''

35

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

+6' 30''

36

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

+7' 52''

37

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

38

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

+7' 57''

39

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

+8' 27''

40

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

+9' 13''

41

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

+9' 52''

42

Cristián Peña

RTS-Menton

+10' 04''

43

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

+14' 48''

44

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

+18' 19''

45

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+21' 15''

46

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

+21' 32''

47

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

+22' 55''

48

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

+23' 26''

49

Joonas Henttala

Novo Nordisk

+25' 05''

50

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

+25' 37''

51

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

+26' 45''

52

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

+26' 46''

53

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

+27' 17''

54

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

+27' 25''

55

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS

+29' 12''

56

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

+29' 39''

57

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

+29' 51''

58

Umberto Poli

Novo Nordisk

+30' 07''

59

Sam Brand

Novo Nordisk

+30' 08''

60

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

+33' 25''

61

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

+33' 39''

62

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

+34' 04''

63

Dylan Page

Switzerland

+34' 06''

64

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

+34' 16''

65

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

66

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

+34' 36''

67

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+34' 51''

68

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

+35' 15''

69

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

+36' 26''

70

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

+36' 52''

71

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

+36' 56''

72

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

+37' 55''

73

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

+38' 42''

74

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

+39' 09''

75

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

+39' 44''

76

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

+40' 30''

77

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+41' 08''

78

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang Cycling

+41' 15''

79

Reid McClure

Novo Nordisk

+41' 21''

80

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

41min 32sec

81

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

+42' 19''

82

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

+42' 27''

83

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

+43' 05''

84

Hang Shi

Giant

+43' 19''

85

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

+43' 46''

86

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+46' 06''

87

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+48' 53''

88

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+52' 20''

89

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Menton

+54' 17''

90

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Menton

+56' 22''

91

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

+57' 34''

Saturday, November 4: Stage 8, Wuzhishan - Lingshui, 197.4 km

Marco Zanotti gets stage eight.

The race: Here's the organizer's telling of the day's racing.

Marco Zanotti (Monkey Town) enjoyed a winning sprint in a reduced peloton in the absence of Jakub Mareczko (Wilier Triestina) and Martin Laas (Delko Marseille) who didn’t overcome the first difficulty of stage 8. It was a tight finish in Lingshui with Marco Maronese (Bardiani CSF) and Emils Liepins (Delko Marseille) while seventh placed Jacopo Mosca (Wilier Triestina) retained the lead with one day to go.

102 riders started stage 8 in Wuzhishan. The first category climb to start the race with put several sprinters in difficulty in the early morning after the queen stage. Second and third on stage 7, Benjamin Prades (Ukyo) and Marc De Maar (Hengxiang) were among the most motivated attackers. Mosca felt the fatigue but the Wilier Triestina team kept him focused to bring him back in the main group.

Zanotti won the KOM price at km 12 ahead of Patrick Schelling (Vorarlberg), Sam Crome (IsoWhey Sports-Swisswellness), De Maar and Prades, which was a strong indication of what was going to follow.

36 riders gathered at the front at km 36 when Schelling opened a solo attack. At km 55, he missed a move by Serghey Tvetcov (Jelly Belly), Andriy Vasylyuk (Kolss), Martin Schäppi (Switzerland) and best Asian rider Liu Jianpeng (Hengxiang) but he was prompt to rejoin the quartet before the KOM price he won at km 126. Jai Hindley (Mitchelton-Scott) bridged the gap by himself to make it a front group of six riders. Tvetcov rode away 30km before the end. Schelling made it across but the duo was reined in with 6km to go.

Delko Marseille led the sprint for Liepins but a bit of head wind made it easier for his opponents to get out of his slipstream at the very end. Zanotti beat Maronese by a very slim margin, clinching his first victory in two years. The Italian also moved into third overall, just seven seconds adrift, which will make Mosca’s defense of the yellow jersey a thrilling finale in Wanning Xinglong.

Post race quotes:

Stage 8 winner Marco Zanotti: “I came to Hainan without racing for three months but I trained well the mountains. I’m not a sprinter like a few years ago anymore but in a smaller peloton like today, I can still have a say. Nowadays, there are sprinters like Mareczko who is almost unbeatable here but on a harder course, I can still play my cards. I hadn’t won a race for two years. I came close on several occasions but finally, I managed to unlock myself. I think it’ll be very difficult to win GC. I expect a full bunch sprint finish tomorrow and there are stronger sprinters than me but I have to try because it’s a great opportunity.”

Race leader Jacopo Mosca: “Today I have to say a big thank you to my team, especially [Luca] Raggio, [Ilya] Koshevoy and a great [Alex] Turrin who have guided me since km 0. In the first hill, I was a bit in trouble. I didn’t feel good. They brought me back and then, with the help of Bardiani who was interested to set up the sprint for Maronese, we managed to catch the breakaway that worried us a lot at some point. We’ve wonderfully defended the yellow jersey and I hope it’ll be the same again tomorrow. We know tomorrow’s finish. It suits Kuba [Mareczko].”

Second placed Marco Maronese: “We were racing head to head with the rider from Delko Marseille [Emils Liepins]. In the last few metres we saw that Zanotti managed to beat us on the right side at the very end. However, I’m happy because it’s been a very demanding stage and I managed to stay with the best riders. I had to give everything in the first hill. When about fourty riders remained at the front, I asked my team-mates to help me because I felt good. We’ve done a great job together with Wilier. I was hoping to pay them back with a win but there’ll be another occasion tomorrow.”

Third placed Emils Liepins: “I thought I was going to win but there was some head wind in the last one hundred metres. Two guys took my wheel and passed me within the last ten metres. I got a very good lead out, I sprinted well but I launched a bit too early due to this head wind. I’m not happy with this third place.”

Points classification leader Jakub Mareczko: “Tomorrow, our priority will be to retain the yellow jersey with [Jacopo] Mosca. So far, we’ve got great results as a team at the Tour of Hainan and we hope to finish the race on a high note.”

King of the Mountain Sam Crome: “We knew it would gonna be a hard start with the cat. 1 climb so we wanted to maximize my lead, which we did and then the break went. Tomorrow, we’ll just have to fight hard in the cat. 3 climb to keep the jersey.”

Most aggressive rider Patrick Schelling: “It was a really hard stage today, probably the hardest since I came to Hainan. I tried to go for the stage win and take some seconds bonus also, so I tried to animate this race.”

Best Asian rider Liu Jianpeng: “I could have just sat in the bunch for the Asian rider classification but I rode away from the main group to try and improve my position on GC. I was glad to win the second intermediate sprint. Since I prepared for the China games in September, my condition is very good. It’s a shame the Hengxiang team has three important riders less on the road now [Wang Meiyin, Ma Guangtong and Zhao Jingbiao]. We could have created more surprises in the Tour of Hainan. Meiyin was always my idol. I’ll try my best tomorrow to do even better than him in the overall classification of the Tour of Hainan [fourth in 2014].”

Complete results:

197.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 39.774 km/hr

1

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

4hr 57min 47sec

2

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

3

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

4

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

5

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

s.t.

6

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

7

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

s.t.

8

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

9

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

10

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

11

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

s.t.

12

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

s.t.

13

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

s.t.

14

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

15

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

16

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

s.t.

17

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

18

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

19

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

20

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

s.t.

21

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

s.t.

22

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang

s.t.

23

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

24

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

25

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang

s.t.

26

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

s.t.

27

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

28

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

29

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

s.t.

30

Bo Wang

Hengxiang

s.t.

31

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

32

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang

s.t.

33

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

s.t.

34

Cristián Peña

RTS-Monton

s.t.

35

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

36

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

37

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

38

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

39

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

s.t.

40

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

41

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

@ 7sec

42

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

s.t.

43

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

+9''

44

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

+10''

45

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

+18''

46

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

@ 16min 18sec

47

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

48

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

49

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

+21' 55''

50

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS

s.t.

51

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

s.t.

52

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

53

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

54

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

s.t.

55

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

56

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

57

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

s.t.

58

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

s.t.

59

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

s.t.

60

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

61

Joonas Henttala

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

62

Umberto Poli

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

63

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

64

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

65

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

+26' 24''

66

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

67

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

68

Sam Brand

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

69

Reid McClure

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

70

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

s.t.

71

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

s.t.

72

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

73

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Monton

s.t.

74

Dylan Page

Switzerland

s.t.

75

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

76

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

77

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

78

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS

s.t.

79

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

80

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

s.t.

81

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

s.t.

82

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

s.t.

83

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

s.t.

84

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

85

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

86

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Monton

s.t.

87

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

88

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

89

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

90

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang

s.t.

91

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

92

Meng Yan

Hengxiang

s.t.

93

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

s.t.

94

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+26' 50''

95

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

s.t.

GC after Stage 8:

1,417.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.73 km/hr

1

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

33hr 10min 10sec

2

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

@ 3sec

3

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

+7''

4

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

+8''

5

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang

s.t.

6

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

+14''

7

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang

+15''

8

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

+17''

9

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

+20''

10

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

11

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

+21''

12

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

13

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

14

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

15

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

16

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

17

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

+25''

18

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

+52''

19

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

+57''

20

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

+1' 30''

21

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

+1' 42''

22

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

+1' 52''

23

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

+1' 54''

24

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

+1' 55''

25

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

+2' 04''

26

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

+2' 46''

27

Bo Wang

Hengxiang

s.t.

28

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

+3' 06''

29

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

+3' 10''

30

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

31

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

+3' 17''

32

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

+3' 42''

33

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang

+3' 52''

34

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

+5' 10''

35

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

+5' 48''

36

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

+7' 42''

37

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

+7' 52''

38

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

39

Cristián Peña

RTS-Monton

s.t.

40

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

+7' 57''

41

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

+8' 27''

42

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

+9' 13''

43

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+13' 21''

44

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

+14' 35''

45

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

+17' 45''

46

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

+19' 20''

47

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

+20' 43''

48

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

+23' 26''

49

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

+24' 34''

50

Joonas Henttala

Team Novo Nordisk

+25' 05''

51

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

52

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

+25' 37''

53

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

+26' 45''

54

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+26' 57''

55

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

+27' 21''

56

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

+27' 25''

57

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

+27' 28''

58

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS

+28' 38''

59

Sam Brand

Team Novo Nordisk

+29' 34''

60

Meng Yan

Hengxiang

s.t.

61

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

+29' 43''

62

Umberto Poli

Team Novo Nordisk

+30' 07''

63

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

+31' 52''

64

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

+32' 24''

65

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

+32' 37''

66

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

+32' 51''

67

Dylan Page

Switzerland

+34' 07''

68

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

+34' 14''

69

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

+34' 16''

70

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

71

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

+34' 40''

72

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS

+36' 16''

73

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

+36' 28''

74

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

+36' 30''

75

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

+37' 02''

76

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

+37' 32''

77

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

+37' 55''

78

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang

+39' 03''

79

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

+39' 09''

80

Reid McClure

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

81

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

82

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

+39' 20''

83

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+40' 02''

84

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

+40' 30''

85

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

+40' 53''

86

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

+40' 59''

87

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

88

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+41' 08''

89

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

+41' 40''

90

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

+42' 27''

91

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

+47' 38''

92

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+50' 08''

93

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Monton

+54' 17''

94

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Monton

+56' 22''

95

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

+57' 34''

Friday, November 3: Stage 7, Sanya - Wuzhishan, 166.5 km

Jacopo Mosca wins stage seven and takes over the GC lead.

The race: Here's the organizer's telling of the day's racing.

Italy’s Jacopo Mosca delivered a surprise victory, also for himself, in the queen stage and continued the winning streak of the Wilier Triestina team after five stage wins by Jakub Mareczko. Mosca also moved into the lead with a 3-seconds advantage over Benjamin Prades (Ukyo) and eight seconds over Mykhaylo Kononenko (Kolss) and Marc De Maar (Hengxiang).

Crome won the battle against polka dot jersey wearer Buts for the KOM competition as he crested three summits out of four in first position. “Being down to four riders, we knew it would be hard for GC so we targeted something else and we got the KOM jersey”, Crome explained. Polivoda was focused on the intermediate sprints and won the first one while Page claimed the second one ahead of Aberasturi and Buts at km 140. The maximum time gap was four minutes after 40km.

Wilier Triestina led the peloton most of the time but keeping a gap of two minutes, it was unclear whether they wanted to bring the breakaway back or not. The answer came with 20km to go when race leader Mareczko went to his team car behind the peloton to bring bottles for his team-mates. He let the peloton go in the final climb whose summit was 12km before the finishing line in Wuzhishan.
Crome attacked with Prades. Barbin, Mosca and Polivoda reacted. Prades and Mosca forged on while Marc De Maar (Hengxiang) attacked solo from the peloton and made it across. The Dutchman attacked with 2km to go and again with 500 metres to go but didn’t manage to drop his two rivals. Mosca had more resources as it wasn’t up to him to pull in the front group at the difference of the Spaniards from Ukyo. He won the three men sprint, keeping just a few seconds of an advantage over a small group from which best Asian rider Liu Jianpeng (Hengxiang) won his duel against Nazaerbieke Bieken (Keyi-Look) and took a remarkable sixth place to enter the top 10 overall too.

Post race quotes:

Stage 7 winner and race leader Jacopo Mosca: “I’m really happy. It’s an unexpected victory but a very nice one. The winning streak of our team continues. This morning, we started with Kuba [Mareczko] in the leader’s jersey. We had two weapons, either help him to hold onto the yellow jersey or sneak into the breakaways and make the best of it, which is what I’ve done eventually. Having the yellow jersey in the team, it wasn’t up to me to pull at the front. I’ve had the green light to ride for myself at the end. There are two stages left. Anything can happen. We’ve had a phenomenal tactic since the beginning of the Tour of Hainan. This is my first year with the team and I want to thank them for trusting me. It’s hard for me to believe in which situation I find myself because I’ve never been used to raise my hands up in the air, even in the amateur ranks I wasn’t a winner. To win a race in my first pro year is beautiful.”

Second placed and most aggressive rider Benjamin Prades: “Jon (Aberasturi) and I covered the break and then we had to go on. At first, the collaboration wasn’t really good, everyone wanted to go on his own. There were a lot of attacks and I think it’s because some riders were afraid not to get over the climbs. In the last climb, I was feeling tired, I had worked more than I hoped, but I set my pace. Marc De Maar must have climbed very fast to get back to the Wilier (Mosca) and I. In the end, I just lacked a little bit of strength. I’m sad because I’ve had many places of 2nd this year. I won the Tour of Taiwan but I really wanted the win here. I was racing for the stage win more than for the GC today. I don’t think there are many options to take the yellow jersey. Wilier are very strong. Jon has done an amazing job. Thanks to him, I had a shot for the stage victory. I think he has options for another win, he’s the only one who’s been able to beat Mareczko and we’ll give it all for him.”

Third placed Marc De Maar: “My only chance to win the race was to attack. At least I tried, but the Italian guy [Jacopo Mosca] was really strong. I knew I wasn’t going to win the sprint. You have to gamble a little bit, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. I’m still happy with the third place.”

Points classification leader Jakub Mareczko: “I went to the car to carry the bottles for my team-mates because every day they have worked for me. Today, it was no longer needed to keep the race under control, as we had Mosca at the front and we were pretty sure he could do well since we realized in the past few days that he’s in a great form with the way he could help me. I wasn’t able to hold the pace in the last climb so I let it go and I saved energy for the last two days. We’ll look at keeping the yellow jersey. That becomes our primary goal now.”

King of the Mountain Sam Crome: “The KOM jersey was definitely a goal of the team. We knew there were a few categorized climbs today. We wanted to put two of us in a break. Being down to four riders, we knew it would be hard for GC so we targeted something else and we got the KOM jersey. I took three KOMs out of four. We didn’t know if the peloton was gonna come back when we had four and half minutes lead but it dropped quite quickly. We set up Joe [Cooper] who was fourth in the end. It was a good day for the team.”

Best Asian rider Liu Jianpeng: “Our team’s plan was to stay in the peloton because the last climb was the most difficult. I saved energy for that part of the race. My goal was a top 10 in the stage [he came sixth] and top 20 on GC [he’s seventh now], so I’m very happy with my performance. At the top of the climb, I realized I was going to retain the blue jersey and I’m determined to keep it till the end.”

Complete results:

166.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 38.884 km/hr

1

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

4hr 16min 55sec

2

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

s.t.

3

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang Cycling

@ 2sec

4

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

+9''

5

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

+11''

6

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

7

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

8

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

9

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

s.t.

10

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

11

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

s.t.

12

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

13

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

14

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

15

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

16

Daniel Domínguez

Keyi Look

s.t.

17

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

18

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

19

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

20

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

21

Nazaerbieke Bieken

Keyi Look

s.t.

22

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

+15''

23

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

+42''

24

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

+47''

25

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

s.t.

26

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

s.t.

27

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

+1' 23''

28

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

s.t.

29

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

30

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

31

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

+1' 34''

32

Ben Hill

Attaque-Gusto

+1' 45''

33

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

+1' 45''

34

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

s.t.

35

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

+1' 47''

36

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang Cycling

+1' 49''

37

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

+2' 29''

38

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

+2' 36''

39

Bo Wang

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

40

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+2' 54''

41

Sam Brand

Novo Nordisk

+3' 00''

42

Joonas Henttala

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

43

Meng Yan

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

44

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

45

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

46

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

47

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

48

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

49

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

s.t.

50

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

s.t.

51

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

s.t.

52

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

+3' 32''

53

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

s.t.

54

Maxat Ayazbayev

Keyi Look

s.t.

55

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

+5' 00''

56

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

57

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS

+5' 38''

58

Weijie Hou

Keyi Look

s.t.

59

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

60

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

61

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

s.t.

62

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

s.t.

63

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

+5' 50''

64

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

+7' 42''

65

Dylan Page

Switzerland

s.t.

66

Cristián Peña

RTS-Menton

s.t.

67

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

s.t.

68

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

s.t.

69

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

70

Umberto Poli

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

71

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

72

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

73

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

s.t.

74

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

s.t.

75

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

76

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

s.t.

77

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

+9' 03''

78

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

+9' 19''

79

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS

+9' 42''

80

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang Cycling

+10' 36''

81

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

+12' 35''

82

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

83

Reid McClure

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

84

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

85

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

86

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+14' 25''

87

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

88

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

89

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

90

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

91

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

92

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

93

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

s.t.

94

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

s.t.

95

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

96

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

+15' 53''

97

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

98

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Menton

+27' 43''

99

Marc-Antoine Nadon

H&R Block

s.t.

100

Gerd de Keijzer

Novo Nordisk

+27' 43''

101

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Menton

+29' 48''

102

Fuwen Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

103

Miras Torekhanov

Keyi Look

+30' 27''

104

Timothy Guy

Attaque-Gusto

+35' 29''

105

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

106

Mehdi Benhamouda

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

107

Tianhao Gu

Giant

+37' 48''

GC after Stage 7:

1,220.0 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.253 km/hr

1

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

28hr 12min 23sec

2

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

@ 3sec

3

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

+8''

4

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

5

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

+17''

6

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

+18''

7

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

8

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

+20''

9

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

+21''

10

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

11

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

12

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

s.t.

13

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

14

Nazaerbieke Bieken

Keyi Look

s.t.

15

Daniel Domínguez

Keyi Look

s.t.

16

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

17

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

18

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

19

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

20

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

+25''

21

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

+52''

22

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

+57''

23

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

24

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

+1' 04''

25

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

+1' 24''

26

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

+1' 27''

27

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

+1' 30''

28

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

+1' 31''

29

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

+1' 44''

30

Ben Hill

Attaque-Gusto

+1' 49''

31

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

+1' 52''

32

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

+1' 55''

33

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

+1' 57''

34

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

+2' 39''

35

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

+2' 46''

36

Bo Wang

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

37

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

+3' 02''

38

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

+3' 06''

39

Joonas Henttala

Novo Nordisk

+3' 10''

40

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

s.t.

41

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

42

Sam Brand

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

43

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

44

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

s.t.

45

Meng Yan

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

46

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

+3' 42''

47

Maxat Ayazbayev

Keyi Look

s.t.

48

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

s.t.

49

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang Cycling

+3' 52''

50

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

+4' 25''

51

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

+5' 10''

52

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

+5' 28''

53

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

+5' 30''

54

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

+5' 47''

55

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

+5' 48''

56

Weijie Hou

Keyi Look

s.t.

57

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

+6' 00''

58

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS

+6' 43''

59

Dylan Page

Switzerland

+7' 43''

60

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

+7' 48''

61

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

62

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

+7' 50''

63

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

s.t.

64

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

+7' 52''

65

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

66

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

s.t.

67

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

68

Cristián Peña

RTS-Menton

s.t.

69

Umberto Poli

Novo Nordisk

+8' 12''

70

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

+8' 29''

71

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

+9' 13''

72

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS

+9' 52''

73

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

+10' 38''

74

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

+10' 56''

75

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

+11' 08''

76

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang Cycling

+12' 39''

77

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

+12' 45''

78

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

79

Reid McClure

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

80

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

81

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+13' 21''

82

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+13' 38''

83

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

+14' 06''

84

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

+14' 29''

85

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

+14' 33''

86

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

+14' 35''

87

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

88

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

89

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

90

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+14' 44''

91

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

+15' 16''

92

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

+16' 00''

93

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

+16' 03''

94

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

+17' 25''

95

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

+21' 14''

96

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+23' 18''

97

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+26' 57''

98

Marc-Antoine Nadon

H&R Block

+27' 53''

99

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Menton

s.t.

100

Gerd de Keijzer

Novo Nordisk

+29' 06''

101

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Menton

+29' 58''

102

Fuwen Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

103

Mehdi Benhamouda

Novo Nordisk

+35' 39''

104

Timothy Guy

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

105

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

106

Miras Torekhanov

Keyi Look

+40' 01''

107

Tianhao Gu

Giant

+45' 31''

Thursday, November 2: Stage 6, Changjiang - Sanya, 219.6 km

Jakub Mareczko makes it an incredible five stage wins in a row.

The race: Here's the organizer's telling of the day's racing.

Jakub Mareczko (Wilier Triestina) has struck again with a fifth consecutive victory, ahead of Martin Laas (Delko Marseille Provence), with Marco Maronese (Bardiani-CSF) third in Sanya. It makes him the most successful pro rider in 2017 along with Quick-Step Floors stars Marcel Kittel and Fernando Gaviria, all of them having won fourteen races. Mareczko remains the overall race leader but the riders face the all-important mountain stage to Wuzhistan on Friday.

Stage 6 was much more limpid than the previous one. Alexis Cartier (H&R Block) attacked from the gun, followed by Mykhaylo Kononenko (Kolss) and Joris Blokker (Monkey Town). Paolo Simion (Bardiani CSF) tried to bridge the gap but didn’t make it. It wasn’t a fast and crazy first beginning this time as 40.8km were covered in the first hour of racing. But the Wilier Triestina team was pacing the bunch around four minutes behind the leading trio. Kononenko won all three intermediate sprints and returned to the peloton after the third one at km 129.

Cartier dropped Blokker off to continue solo with 32km to go while a counter attack was formed by Joab Schneiter (Swiss national team), Gian Friesecke (Vorarlberg) and Xue Fuwen (Mitchelton-Scott). Cartier, Schneiter and Friesecke were reeled in with 3.5km to go. Delko Marseille seized the command of the peloton in the last 2km but Wilier Triestina took the last curve in a perfect position to deliver a fifth straight victory with Mareczko.

Post race quotes:

Stage 6 winner and race leader Jakub Mareczko: “I knew the finish in Sanya very well because I won here two years ago. It’s nice to win here again. In the meantime I’ve won races in different parts of the world but mostly in China where I’ve found flat courses that suit me. I’m happy to reach the same number of victories as Fernando Gaviria and Marcel Kittel [14] this year but their wins are at a higher level than mines. Being in a smaller team than theirs [Quick-Step Floors], I take part in other races than them [except for the Giro d’Italia] but it’s an encouraging achievement for me and my team, considering that we’re trying to improve also for more demanding races. Today, it’s been a long stage with a 3-man breakaway. My team-mates have worked from the first kilometers onwards to control the escape. The Frenchmen from Delko Marseille have worked for their man [Martin Laas] in the finale but my lead out train has been perfect. We needed those few victories to conclude the season on a high note. Tomorrow it’ll be a hard stage and I’m getting tired because I’ve been racing hard for three weeks. Luckily there are only three stages left.”

Second placed Martin Laas: “The previous days I took Jakub Mareczko’s wheel or somebody else’s but today we planned to go with our train. I thought the way to beat was maybe to launch the sprint in first position. That’s why we took the command of the peloton but we missed one guy and we went a little bit early so it was too long and today, I actually didn’t have the legs to beat Mareczko. He was very good today. When I took his wheel, I still believed I could pass him but he rode so fast that I didn’t even consider challenging him in the last few metres anymore.”

Third placed Marco Maronese: “I’m very happy with this first podium at the Tour of Hainan. As a team, we were close to make it in the previous stages and we managed to do it today. It’s been a nice team work. In the first stages, Paolo Simion and I tried both to get a result because we never know if one has better legs than the other. Today, it went well for me. We all took the last curve in the first positions and it was hard for other riders to make it up, so we have several riders in top ranks. Tomorrow, it’s not a course that suits me but my team-mates are motivated for fighting for the overall win. We have a few options with three or four different riders.”

Most aggressive rider Alexis Cartier: “At the difference of previous days, it wasn’t hard to break away today because many riders were tired. I made the first attack on the start line and it was the decisive one. I’m happy. Had I stayed in the bunch, I would have been bored. I also need to race aggressively to have a chance of winning. I’ll never win a sprint or an uphill finish. I believed the breakaway could work today because of the Wilier Triestina riders being tired and the change of direction of wind on the course. With a tailwind at the end, we had a few more chances than usual. I believed I could win until 10km to go. The Tour of Hainan is really fun. We came to Sanya for a week before the race, we stayed next to the beach, we could go swimming and it’s a very nice area for training.”

King of the Mountains Vitaly Buts: “Today, it was a more relax day after three demanding stages and ahead of tomorrow’s queen stage. My team-mate Mykhaylo [Kononenko] rode away to take nine seconds bonus with stage 7 in mind. We think he and other guys from our team can do well in the overall ranking. I predict a very hard race tomorrow and I don’t think Mareczko will manage to retain the lead.”

Best Asian rider Liu Jianpeng: “Yesterday we had a very aggressive race from start to finish but today, the peloton remained quiet thinking of the difficulty of stage 7. I also saved energy for tomorrow. I feel a little bit nervous but I’ll try my best to keep the blue jersey. I like being here in Sanya. I recommend this place for holidays!”

Complete results:

219.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.680 km/hr

1

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

5hr 8min 43sec

2

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

3

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

4

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

s.t.

5

Dylan Page

Switzerland

s.t.

6

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

7

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

s.t.

8

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

9

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

s.t.

10

Ben Hill

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

11

Žolt Dér

Team Vorarlberg

s.t.

12

Mehdi Benhamouda

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

13

Marc-Antoine Nadon

H&R Block

s.t.

14

Umberto Poli

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

15

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

16

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

17

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

18

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

19

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

s.t.

20

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

s.t.

21

Maxat Ayazbayev

Keyi Look

s.t.

22

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

23

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

s.t.

24

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

25

Martin Meiler

Team Vorarlberg

s.t.

26

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

27

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

28

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

29

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

30

Fabian Lienhard

Team Vorarlberg

s.t.

31

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

32

Timothy Guy

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

33

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

34

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Menton

s.t.

35

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

36

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

s.t.

37

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

s.t.

38

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

s.t.

39

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

s.t.

40

Shao Hsuan Lu

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

41

Luke Mudgway

RTS-Menton

s.t.

42

Alessandro Tonelli

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

43

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

s.t.

44

Patrick Schelling

Team Vorarlberg

s.t.

45

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

46

Nazaerbieke Bieken

Keyi Look

s.t.

47

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

48

Weijie Hou

Keyi Look

s.t.

49

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

50

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

51

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

52

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

53

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

s.t.

54

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

55

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

56

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

s.t.

57

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

s.t.

58

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

s.t.

59

Joonas Henttala

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

60

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

s.t.

61

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

62

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

63

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

64

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

65

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

66

Gian Friesecke

Team Vorarlberg

s.t.

67

Lukas Meiler

Team Vorarlberg

s.t.

68

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

69

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang

s.t.

70

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

71

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

s.t.

72

Reid McClure

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

73

Daniel Domínguez

Keyi Look

s.t.

74

Sam Brand

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

75

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Menton

s.t.

76

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

s.t.

77

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

78

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

79

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

80

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

81

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

s.t.

82

Reinier Honig

Team Vorarlberg

s.t.

83

Cristián Peña

RTS-Menton

s.t.

84

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang

s.t.

85

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang

s.t.

86

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

87

Xin Wang

Keyi Look

s.t.

88

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

s.t.

89

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

s.t.

90

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

91

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

s.t.

92

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang

s.t.

93

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

s.t.

94

Fuwen Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

95

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

96

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS

s.t.

97

Bo Wang

Hengxiang

s.t.

98

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS

s.t.

99

Meng Yan

Hengxiang

s.t.

100

Miras Torekhanov

Keyi Look

s.t.

101

Tianhao Gu

Giant

s.t.

102

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

103

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

104

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

@ 25sec

105

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

s.t.

106

Chaohua Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

107

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

108

Alder Martz

Attaque-Gusto

+29''

109

Gerd de Keijzer

Novo Nordisk

+1' 13''

110

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

+1' 31''

111

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

+1' 33''

112

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+1' 36''

113

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+2' 38''

GC after stage 6:

1,053.5 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 44.06 km/hr

1

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

23hr 54min 41sec

2

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

@ 28sec

3

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

+41''

4

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

+44''

5

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

+50''

6

Dylan Page

Switzerland

+51''

7

Ben Hill

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

8

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

s.t.

9

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

+53''

10

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

11

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

s.t.

12

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

13

Žolt Dér

Team Vorarlberg

+54''

14

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

s.t.

15

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

16

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

17

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

18

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang

s.t.

19

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

+55''

20

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

s.t.

21

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

+56''

22

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

s.t.

23

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

24

Martin Meiler

Team Vorarlberg

+57''

25

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

26

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

27

Marc-Antoine Nadon

H&R Block

s.t.

28

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

s.t.

29

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

30

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

31

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

s.t.

32

Maxat Ayazbayev

Keyi Look

s.t.

33

Gian Friesecke

Team Vorarlberg

s.t.

34

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

35

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

s.t.

36

Mehdi Benhamouda

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

37

Weijie Hou

Keyi Look

s.t.

38

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Menton

s.t.

39

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

40

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Menton

s.t.

41

Patrick Schelling

Team Vorarlberg

s.t.

42

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

43

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

s.t.

44

Nazaerbieke Bieken

Keyi Look

s.t.

45

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

s.t.

46

Timothy Guy

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

47

Daniel Domínguez

Keyi Look

s.t.

48

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

s.t.

49

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

50

Joonas Henttala

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

51

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

52

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

53

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

54

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

s.t.

55

Fabian Lienhard

Team Vorarlberg

s.t.

56

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

57

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

58

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

59

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

60

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

61

Christopher PrendergasT

H&R Block

s.t.

62

Reinier Honig

Team Vorarlberg

s.t.

63

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

64

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

s.t.

65

Lukas Meiler

Team Vorarlberg

s.t.

66

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

67

Xin Wang

Keyi Look

s.t.

68

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

69

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

70

Reid McClure

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

71

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

72

Sam Brand

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

73

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

74

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

s.t.

75

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

76

Alessandro Tonelli

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

77

Cristián Peña

RTS-Menton

s.t.

78

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

79

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang

s.t.

80

Fuwen Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

81

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

82

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

83

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

84

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS

s.t.

85

Bo Wang

Hengxiang

s.t.

86

Meng Yan

Hengxiang

s.t.

87

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+1' 06''

88

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

+1' 15''

89

Umberto Poli

Novo Nordisk

+1' 17''

90

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

+1' 34''

91

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

+1' 39''

92

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

+1' 40''

93

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS

+1' 52''

94

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

+2' 02''

95

Luke Mudgway

RTS-Menton

+2' 06''

96

Gerd de Keijzer

Novo Nordisk

+2' 10''

97

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

+2' 45''

98

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang

+2' 50''

99

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang

s.t.

100

Alder Martz

Attaque-Gusto

+3' 32''

101

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

+4' 13''

102

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

+4' 25''

103

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

+6' 05''

104

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

+8' 25''

105

Tianhao Gu

Giant

+8' 30''

106

Shao Hsuan Lu

Attaque-Gusto

+8' 53''

107

Miras Torekhanov

Keyi Look

+10' 21''

108

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

+12' 42''

109

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+12' 45''

110

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+13' 19''

111

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

+15' 12''

112

Chaohua Xue

Mitchelton Scott

+19' 08''

113

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+20' 51''

Wednesday, November 1: Stage 5, Danzhou - Changjiang, 167.5 km

That makes four stage wins in a row for Jakub Mareczko!

The race: Here's the organizer's telling of the day's racing.

Jakub Mareczko (Wilier Triestina) won his fourth consecutive stage but it wasn’t a standard one as the peloton rode extremely fast from start to finish despite the headwind in the last fifty kilometers. Martin Laas (Delko Marseille) came second again and Andriy Kulyk (Kolss) made the podium for the first time after the last three breakaway riders were reeled in in the last kilometer of racing.

119 riders started stage 5 in Danzhou, Ma Guangtong (Hengxiang) being the only non-starter due to sickness. The bunch was on fire right after the flag off. Alexis Cartier (H&R Block), Oleksander Polivoda (Kolss) and Ivar Slik (Monkey Town) led the first attack. 47 riders including the whole Kolss team, runner up Martin Laas (Delko Marseille) and Best Asian rider Liu Jianpeng (Hengxiang) rode away after 25km of racing. Mareczko was in the second part of the bunch, forcing his Wilier Triestina team to chase strongly while his team-mate Eugert Zhupa who was at the front won the intermediate sprint at km 32 ahead of Anthony Giacoppo (IsoWhey Sports-Swisswellness) who would later be disqualified due to drafting behind his team car for too long after a crash.

The peloton was back together after 44km of a very aggressive racing. 50km were covered in less than an hour and attacks kept flying. Benjamin Hill (Attaque Gusto) won the KOM price at km55.6 ahead of Vitaly Buts (Kolss) who nevertheless retained the lead. Tour of Japan winner Oscar Pujol (Ukyo) made his GC ambitions clear as he came third behind Slik and Alfonso Castillo (Jelly Belly) in the second intermediate sprint (km 62). Attacks kept going on with Andrii Bratashchuk (Kolss), Dimitri Bussard (Swiss national team) and Zhang Zheng (Hengxiang) riding away from a 21-man leading group at km 90. But ten kilometers further, it was another big group of 22 riders on the offensive.

As fatigue was obvious in the bunch with constants attacks, Pujol found the way to escape with 40km to go along with Alexis Cartier (H&R Block), Lukas Sprengler (Swiss national team) and Fabian Lienhard (Vorarlberg). Their maximum lead was one minute 33km away from Changjiang. Cartier was swallowed by the bunch within 10km to go. The Wilier Triestina team struggled to bring it back together and they only caught the leading trio 500 metres before the line. Delko Marseille tried to take the command before the sprint but Mareczko remained in control to claim his fourth straight stage victory ahead of Laas.

Stage 5 winner and race leader Jakub Mareczko: “I think all riders are tired and happy to know that we’re now in the second half of the Tour of Hainan. We’ve ridden really fast today. We arrived twenty minutes ahead of the fastest schedule. In the last kilometer, we still weren’t sure to close on the breakaway. We managed to catch them in the very few metres only. We weren’t expecting it would be so hard. The wind has made today’s race very hard for everyone, including my team-mates. It never happened to me before to contest a stage flat out from start to finish with not even a minute to breathe and relax. They never slowed down. At some point there was a breakaway of 47 riders, so we’ve had to give everything to put it back together. It’s been a very fast day of cycling. We really struggled with the head wind to catch the last three escapees. There are four stages left, including a pretty hard one (stage 7). Today’s stage will have made some damage in the riders’ bodies.”

Second placed Martin Laas: “I was suffering all day because the peloton was going so fast. I had big pains in my legs and after ten kilometers I looked back and I could that we were fourty something guys at the front. I was a little bit surprised that the peloton was broken. We had a fourty seconds gap. It was a funny and hard race today! We rode full gas in the first two and half hours. Our speed was almost 50km/h. In the final sprint, we tried to take the last corner in front of the Wilier team, but it was a bit messy, we lost some guys, we had to wait for [Asbjorn Kragh] Andersen. But we did a good sprint. We were pretty close at the end.”

Third placed Andriy Kulyk: “I’m very happy to make the podium after being fifth in previous stages. It’s always important to be in the top 3. But I had some mechanical problems in the sprint. The tactic and position were good but I couldn’t shift the gears to go faster.”

Most aggressive rider Lukas Sprengler: “I was in almost every group that rode away. As a Swiss team, we were present in all the moves. The breakaway was a good attack when all the teams were tired. It was our idea to make it a really hard day. The Wilier team was tired and the battle between us at the front and them leading the peloton was a hard one until the very end. Unfortunately we didn’t have enough power left to pull till the finish line.”

King of the Mountain Vitaly Buts: “It’s been a very fast race from the gun. At the KOM, I lost some metres on Benjamin Hill. Now we’re head to head in this classification. Between us, the KOM classification will be decided on stage 7. Since day, we also work for Andriy Kulyk to make the top 3 in a stage and finally it happened today. We hope that he wins a stage by the end of the Tour.”

Best Asian rider Liu Jianpeng: “Having lost our team-mate Ma Guangtong who didn’t start today due to sickness, I feel even more responsibilities for defending the Best Asian rider jersey now. I think I handled them pretty well today as I was in the front group when the peloton split in two. I have a lot of respect for the Wilier Triestina team. The work they’ve done to bring the bunch back together was huge.”

Complete results:

167.5 kilometers raced at an average speed of 46.719 km/hr!

1

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

3hr 35min 7sec

2

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

3

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

4

Marc-Antoine Nadon

H&R Block

s.t.

5

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

6

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

s.t.

7

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

8

Mehdi Benhamouda

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

9

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

s.t.

10

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

s.t.

11

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

s.t.

12

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

s.t.

13

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

14

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

s.t.

15

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

16

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Monton

s.t.

17

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

18

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

19

Luke Mudgway

RTS-Monton

s.t.

20

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

s.t.

21

Dylan Page

Switzerland

s.t.

22

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

s.t.

23

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

24

Weijie Hou

Keyi Look

s.t.

25

Gerd de Keijzer

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

26

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

27

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

s.t.

28

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

29

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

s.t.

30

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

31

Alder Martz

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

32

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

33

Ben Hill

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

34

Daniel Domínguez

Keyi Look

s.t.

35

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

s.t.

36

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

s.t.

37

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

38

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

s.t.

39

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

40

Timothy Guy

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

41

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

42

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

s.t.

43

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

44

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

s.t.

45

Nazaerbieke Bieken

Keyi Look

s.t.

46

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

47

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

48

Maxat Ayazbayev

Keyi Look

s.t.

49

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

50

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

s.t.

51

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

52

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

53

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

54

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

55

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

56

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

57

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

58

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

59

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

s.t.

60

Joonas Henttala

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

61

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

62

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

63

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

s.t.

64

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

65

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

66

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

s.t.

67

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

68

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

69

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

s.t.

70

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

s.t.

71

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

72

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

s.t.

73

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

s.t.

74

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

s.t.

75

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

76

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

77

Cristián Peña

RTS-Monton

s.t.

78

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

s.t.

79

Fuwen Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

80

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

s.t.

81

Bo Wang

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

82

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

83

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

84

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

85

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

86

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

87

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Monton

s.t.

88

Xin Wang

Keyi Look

s.t.

89

Sam Brand

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

90

Miras Torekhanov

Keyi Look

s.t.

91

Reid McClure

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

92

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS-Innova

s.t.

93

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

94

Meng Yan

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

95

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

96

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

97

Alessandro Tonelli

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

98

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

99

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

s.t.

100

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

s.t.

101

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

102

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

103

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

s.t.

104

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

@ 15sec

105

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

+18''

106

Umberto Poli

Novo Nordisk

+20''

107

Tianhao Gu

Giant

+44''

108

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS-Innova

+55''

109

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+1' 35''

110

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+2' 08''

111

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+4' 10''

112

Chaohua Xue

Mitchelton Scott

+5' 30''

113

Shao Hsuan Lu

Attaque-Gusto

+7' 56''

114

Michael Freiberg

IsoWhey Sports

+18' 27''

GC after Stage 5:

833.9 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 44.430 km/hr

1

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

18hr 46min 8sec

2

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

@ 24sec

3

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

+31''

4

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

+40''

5

Dylan Page

Switzerland

+41''

6

Ben Hill

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

7

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

+43''

8

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

s.t.

9

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

10

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

11

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

+44''

12

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

s.t.

13

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

14

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

15

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

16

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

17

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

+45''

18

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

s.t.

19

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

+46''

20

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

s.t.

21

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

22

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

+47''

23

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

24

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

25

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

s.t.

26

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

27

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

s.t.

28

Marc-Antoine Nadon

H&R Block

s.t.

29

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

30

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

31

Maxat Ayazbayev

Keyi Look

s.t.

32

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Monton

s.t.

33

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

s.t.

34

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

35

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

s.t.

36

Weijie Hou

Keyi Look

s.t.

37

Mehdi Benhamouda

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

38

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

s.t.

39

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Monton

s.t.

40

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

s.t.

41

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

42

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

s.t.

43

Gerd de Keijzer

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

44

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

45

Daniel Domínguez

Keyi Look

s.t.

46

Nazaerbieke Bieken

Keyi Look

s.t.

47

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

s.t.

48

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

s.t.

49

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

s.t.

50

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

51

Timothy Guy

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

52

Joonas Henttala

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

53

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

54

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

55

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

56

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

57

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

58

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

s.t.

59

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

s.t.

60

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

61

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

s.t.

62

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

63

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

64

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

s.t.

65

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

66

Xin Wang

Keyi Look

s.t.

67

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

68

Reid McClure

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

69

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

70

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

71

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

72

Sam Brand

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

73

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

74

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

75

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

76

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

s.t.

77

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

78

Cristián Peña

RTS-Monton

s.t.

79

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

80

Fuwen Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

81

Alessandro Tonelli

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

82

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

83

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

84

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS-Innova

s.t.

85

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

86

Bo Wang

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

87

Meng Yan

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

88

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+56''

89

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

+59''

90

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

+1' 02''

91

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

+1' 05''

92

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

93

Umberto Poli

Novo Nordisk

+1' 07''

94

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

+1' 29''

95

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS-Innova

+1' 42''

96

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

+1' 52''

97

Luke Mudgway

RTS-Monton

+1' 56''

98

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang Cycling

+2' 40''

99

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

100

Alder Martz

Attaque-Gusto

+2' 53''

101

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

+4' 03''

102

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

+4' 15''

103

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

+5' 55''

104

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

+8' 15''

105

Tianhao Gu

Giant

+8' 20''

106

Shao Hsuan Lu

Attaque-Gusto

+8' 43''

107

Miras Torekhanov

Keyi Look

+10' 11''

108

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+10' 59''

109

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

+12' 32''

110

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+12' 44''

111

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

+13' 31''

112

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+18' 06''

113

Chaohua Xue

Mitchelton Scott

+18' 33''

114

Michael Freiberg

IsoWhey Sports

+19' 10''

Tuesday, October 31: Stage 4, Chengmai - Danzhou, 192.3 km

Jakub Mareczko makes it a hat trick, three stage wins in a row.

The race: Here's the organizer's stage summary.

Jakub Mareczko (Wilier Triestina) made it three in a row in Danzhou to beat Peter Sagan’s total of thirty-six victories in his first three pro seasons. He extended his lead overall while Martin Laas (Delko Marseille) and Anthony Giacoppo (IsoWhey Sports-Swisswellness) rounded out the podium.

121 riders started stage 4 in Chengmai. Oleksandr Polivoda (Kolss), Hou Weijie (Keyi Look), Serghei Tvetcov (Jelly Belly) were the first attackers but their ambitions were short lived due to the KOM price located only 22km after the start line. Vitaly Buts (Kolss) made the best of it as he fended off his rivals Benjamin Hill (Attaque Gusto) and Benjamin Prades (Ukyo).

The intermediate sprint at km 38 was also highly contested with Laas taking the first place and a lot of hopes for the green jersey while Dylan Page (Swiss National Team) and Marco Zanotti (Monkey Town) were second and third, the Italian giving a strong indication that he’s chasing time bonus because of his ambitions on GC. Mirco Maestri (Bardiani CSF), Rick Van Breda (Monkey Town), Zhang Zheng (Hengxiang) and Jacopo Mosca (Wilier Triestina) rode away after the sprint but got caught at km 50.

Travis Samuel (H&R Block), Oleksandr Prevar (Kolss), Sven Van Luijk (Monkey Town) and Alfredo Castillo (Jelly Belly) got more luck. They got a maximum gap of 3.30 at km 75. Almost 90km were covered in the first two hours! The advantage of the quartet was reduced to 1.15 with 25km to go and 30 seconds at the 10km to go mark. They were reined in 3km before the end.

Wilier Triestina set up another perfect sprint for Mareczko who enjoyed the slightly downhill to the finishing line to win once again with the length of a bike.

Stage 4 winner and race leader Jakub Mareczko: “It’s been a long stage and a difficult one to control because in the first sixty kilometers everyone was looking for breaking away. It was lumpy all day. But we kept it under control and at the end, [Eugert] Zhupa took me to the front at perfection. When I got out of his wheel, it was all very simple. I have to thank Eugert and all my team-mates from Wilier Triestina. They’ve done an exceptional work. It won’t be a bunch sprint finish every day but as long as we have a chance, we go for it. OK, this is my 37th pro victory and I’m pleased with the number. I’m told that Peter Sagan got 36 in three seasons but his wins have another value. We’ve won at totally different races. It can’t be compared. I got most of my wins on Asian soil, where I found stage races with a lot of stages and a lot of flat stages, unlike in Europe where there are many more climbs.”

Second placed Martin Laas: “I’m quite happy with my sprint. Our team worked very well for me today. The last guy supposed to lead me out [Emil Liepins] was dropped after being stuck behind some other riders. We were together with Asbjorn [Kragh Andersen] but one kilometer was too long for him to drag me, so I was alone for the last 400 metres. I had to take a bit of wind and then Mareczko started sprinting. I had already made a little effort but he could go with fresh legs. He went straight away to the front and it stayed like this till the line. It’s ok. I’m happy. Early in the race, I won the first intermediate sprint so I regained a few points on Mareczko but in the end, he got more points on the finishing line again. But we keep fighting for the green jersey!”

Third placed Anthony Giacoppo: “My sprint probably went a little bit better today. Our team took it a little bit earlier and I was in a better position. When Mareczko jumped he got a gap. We were closing down towards the end but it was too late. We don’t have Scott Sunderland here, so we’ve been unsure of who to sprint for. We’re both [him and Michael Freiberg] lead out men sprinting. Sometimes I can climb as well. I don’t know how good I can go here. There are some pretty good climbers. The hill is pretty big on stage 7 but I’ll try. We have GC riders [Robbie Hucker] but if I’m good enough to make it over the climb, then it’s a bonus but it’s unlikely.”

King of the Mountain Vitaly Buts: “Today, I knew the hill was not too hard. I suffered yesterday but today I won the KOM price with no problem and I managed to retain the lead. I felt much better than yesterday. It’s not my first time going for the KOM and in the past, I’ve ridden for both KOM and GC. Two years ago, I was second in the KOM competition but this year I want to win it. I might as well hang on on the climb in stage 7 and do well on GC like fifth two years ago.”

Most combative rider Sven van Luijk: “Our main goal is the overall classification with Marco Zanotti who is a sprinter but he’s not the best sprinter in the race this year. He has trained a lot uphill. We think he can survive the climb on stage 7 and sprint for that stage victory, which could put him in the front of the overall classification. That’s why I tried to get some seconds bonus in the intermediate sprints today. Also, we try to make the breakaway every day because we think that one day, Wilier won’t be able to control the whole race and we hope to be at the front when that happens.”

Best Asian rider Liu Jianpeng: “I’m not famous enough yet with this distinctive jersey but I definitely want to become famous in cycling. Another rider from our team was supposed to break away today but it didn’t happen, so we’ll go for it in the next few days. I consider that all other Asian riders in the race remain my adversaries for the Best Asian rider competition. I will eat well and rest well to do my best in the queen stage.”

Complete results:

192.3 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.641 km/hr

1

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

4hr 24min 23sec

2

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

3

Anthony Giacoppo

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

4

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

5

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

6

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

7

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

8

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

s.t.

9

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

s.t.

10

Umberto Poli

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

11

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

s.t.

12

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

s.t.

13

Ben Hill

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

14

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

s.t.

15

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

s.t.

16

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

s.t.

17

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

18

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

19

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

s.t.

20

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Monton

s.t.

21

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

22

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

s.t.

23

Dylan Page

Switzerland

s.t.

24

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

s.t.

25

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

26

Marc-Antoine Nadon

H&R Block

s.t.

27

Weijie Hou

Keyi Look

s.t.

28

Gerd de Keijzer

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

29

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

30

Shao Hsuan Lu

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

31

Maxat Ayazbayev

Keyi Look

s.t.

32

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

s.t.

33

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

34

Mehdi Benhamouda

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

35

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Monton

s.t.

36

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

37

Nazaerbieke Bieken

Keyi Look

s.t.

38

Timothy Guy

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

39

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

s.t.

40

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

41

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

42

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

43

Tianhao Gu

Giant

s.t.

44

Joonas Henttala

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

45

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

46

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

47

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

s.t.

48

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

s.t.

49

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

50

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS

s.t.

51

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

s.t.

52

Daniel Domínguez

Keyi Look

s.t.

53

Chien Chou Chen

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

54

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

s.t.

55

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

56

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

57

Xin Wang

Keyi Look

s.t.

58

Michael Freiberg

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

59

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang

s.t.

60

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

s.t.

61

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

s.t.

62

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

63

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

64

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang

s.t.

65

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

66

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

67

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

68

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

69

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

s.t.

70

Alessandro Tonelli

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

71

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

72

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

73

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

74

Reid McClure

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

75

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

76

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

77

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

78

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

79

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

s.t.

80

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

81

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

82

Alder Martz

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

83

Miras Torekhanov

Keyi Look

s.t.

84

Guangtong Ma

Hengxiang

s.t.

85

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

s.t.

86

Sam Brand

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

87

Antonio Alarcón

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

88

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

89

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

s.t.

90

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

s.t.

91

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

s.t.

92

Cristián Peña

RTS-Monton

s.t.

93

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

94

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

95

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

s.t.

96

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang

s.t.

97

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang

s.t.

98

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

99

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS

s.t.

100

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

101

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

102

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

s.t.

103

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

104

Meng Yan

Hengxiang

s.t.

105

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

106

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

107

Islam Usmanov

Keyi Look

s.t.

108

Luke Mudgway

RTS-Monton

s.t.

109

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

s.t.

110

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

s.t.

111

Bo Wang

Hengxiang

s.t.

112

Xiangyuan Li

Giant

s.t.

113

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

114

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

115

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

116

Fuwen Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

117

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

s.t.

118

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

@ 1min 6sec

119

Chaohua Xue

Mitchelton Scott

+1' 25''

120

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+1' 44''

GC after Stage 4:

666.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.881 km/hr

1

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

15hr 11min 11sec

2

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

@ 20sec

3

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

+21''

4

Anthony Giacoppo

IsoWhey Sports

+29''

5

Dylan Page

Switzerland

+31''

6

Ben Hill

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

7

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

8

Michael Freiberg

IsoWhey Sports

+33''

9

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

s.t.

10

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

11

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

+34''

12

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

13

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

14

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang

s.t.

15

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

+35''

16

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

s.t.

17

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

18

Guangtong Ma

Hengxiang

s.t.

19

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

+36''

20

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

+37''

21

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

22

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

23

Umberto Poli

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

24

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Monton

s.t.

25

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

s.t.

26

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

s.t.

27

Maxat Ayazbayev

Keyi Look

s.t.

28

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

29

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

30

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

31

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

s.t.

32

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

33

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

34

Marc-Antoine Nadon

H&R Block

s.t.

35

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

s.t.

36

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

s.t.

37

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

38

Weijie Hou

Keyi Look

s.t.

39

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

s.t.

40

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

s.t.

41

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

42

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

s.t.

43

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Monton

s.t.

44

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

45

Mehdi Benhamouda

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

46

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

47

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

s.t.

48

Daniel Domínguez

Keyi Look

s.t.

49

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

s.t.

50

Nazaerbieke Bieken

Keyi Look

s.t.

51

Gerd de Keijzer

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

52

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

s.t.

53

Joonas Henttala

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

54

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

55

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

s.t.

56

Shao Hsuan Lu

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

57

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

58

Timothy Guy

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

59

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

60

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

61

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

62

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

s.t.

63

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

s.t.

64

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

65

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

66

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

67

Xin Wang

Keyi Look

s.t.

68

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

s.t.

69

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

70

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

s.t.

71

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

72

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

73

Reid McClure

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

74

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

75

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

s.t.

76

Antonio Alarcón

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

77

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

78

Sam Brand

Team Novo Nordisk

s.t.

79

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

80

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

81

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS

s.t.

82

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

83

Cristián Peña

RTS-Monton

s.t.

84

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

85

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

s.t.

86

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

87

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

88

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

89

Alessandro Tonelli

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

90

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang

s.t.

91

Fuwen Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

92

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

93

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

94

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS

s.t.

95

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

96

Bo Wang

Hengxiang

s.t.

97

Meng Yan

Hengxiang

s.t.

98

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+49''

99

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

s.t.

100

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

+1' 19''

101

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

+1' 42''

102

Luke Mudgway

RTS-Monton

+1' 46''

103

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang

+2' 30''

104

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang

s.t.

105

Alder Martz

Attaque-Gusto

+2' 43''

106

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

+3' 53''

107

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

+4' 05''

108

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

+5' 45''

109

Tianhao Gu

Giant

+7' 26''

110

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

+8' 05''

111

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+8' 41''

112

Miras Torekhanov

Keyi Look

+10' 01''

113

Chien Chou Chen

Attaque-Gusto

+11' 31''

114

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

+12' 22''

115

Islam Usmanov

Keyi Look

+13' 09''

116

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

+13' 21''

117

Xiangyuan Li

Giant

+13' 52''

118

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+4h 35' 22''

119

Chaohua Xue

Mitchelton Scott

+4h 37' 16''

120

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+4h 38' 09''

Monday, October 30: Stage 3, Haikou - Chengmai, 155.6 km

Jakub Mareczko gets his second stage win this Tour.

The race: Here's the organizer's telling of the day's racing.

Jakub Mareczko of Wilier Triestina took his second stage victory and extended his lead in the overall classification over Jon Aberasturi (Ukyo) while Australian team IsoWhey Sports-Swisswellness made the podium again, with Anthony Giacoppo this time. He’s now 11 seconds ahead of his Spanish rival and 27 seconds ahead of the main peloton.

124 riders started stage 3 in Haikou. The Wilier Triestina team faced a lot of attacks whereas people expected only one breakaway before the final bunch gallop. Sergey Grechyn (Hainan Jilun), Stefan Bakker (Monkey Town), Ma Guangtong (Hengxiang) and Alexis Cartier (H&R Block) made the first move but it was over at km 18. Steven Cuesta (Hainan) and Liu Jiangpeng (Hengxiang) went clear before the first intermediate sprint at km 31 where Marco Zanotti (Monkey Town) gave a strong indication that he was racing for the overall classification throughout the time bonuses rather than the stages this time. Liu moved into the lead of the Best Asian rider classification as he won that sprint.

Before km 60, Joe Cooper (IsoWhey Sports-Swisswellness), Mykhaylo Kononenko (Kolss), Benjamin Hill (Attaque Gusto), Cartier and Ma again opened a gap. Kolss chased them down to catch them ahead of the only KOM price of the day at km 105, which appeared to be the most spectacular fight besides the finish itself. Hill had to contest it from the bunch after being reeled in. He was second to Benjamin Prades (Ukyo) while Vitaly Buts (Kolss) came third, just on time to retain the polka dot jersey.

Emil Liepins (Delko Marseille), Luke Mudgway (RTS-Monton), Marc De Maar (Hengxiang), Jordan Cheyne (Jelly Belly) and Zanotti made another break with 50km to go. Liepins and Zanotti were in theory some of Mareczko’s rivals for the sprint but they obviously had few hopes to beat him so they chose another way to contest the stage victory. Liepins, Mudgway and Cheyne were the last attackers caught with 6km to go. The Wilier Triestina team swallowed a last attacker from Bardiani CSF to deliver a second bunch sprint victory for Mareczko.

Complete results:

155.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.845 km/hr

1

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

3hr 28min 11sec

2

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

s.t.

3

Anthony Giacoppo

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

4

Marc-Antoine Nadon

H&R Block

s.t.

5

Michael Freiberg

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

6

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Monton

s.t.

7

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

8

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

9

Dylan Page

Switzerland

s.t.

10

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

s.t.

11

Umberto Poli

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

12

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

13

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

s.t.

14

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

15

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

16

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

s.t.

17

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

18

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

s.t.

19

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

s.t.

20

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

s.t.

21

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

s.t.

22

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

23

Maxat Ayazbayev

Keyi Look

s.t.

24

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

s.t.

25

Ben Hill

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

26

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

s.t.

27

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

s.t.

28

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

s.t.

29

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

s.t.

30

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

s.t.

31

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

32

Shao Hsuan Lu

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

33

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

34

Daniel Domínguez

Keyi Look

s.t.

35

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

36

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Monton

s.t.

37

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

38

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

39

Timothy Guy

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

40

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

s.t.

41

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

42

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

43

Weijie Hou

Keyi Look

s.t.

44

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

45

Cristián Peña

RTS-Monton

s.t.

46

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

47

Nazaerbieke Bieken

Keyi Look

s.t.

48

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

49

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

s.t.

50

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

s.t.

51

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

52

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

53

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

s.t.

54

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

s.t.

55

Xiaolong Sun

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

56

Fuwen Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

57

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

58

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

59

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

60

Xin Wang

Keyi Look

s.t.

61

Joonas Henttala

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

62

Sam Brand

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

63

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

s.t.

64

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

65

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

66

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

s.t.

67

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

68

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

s.t.

69

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

70

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

71

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

72

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

s.t.

73

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

s.t.

74

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

75

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

76

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

s.t.

77

Guangtong Ma

Hengxiang

s.t.

78

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

79

Tianhao Gu

Giant

s.t.

80

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS-Innova

s.t.

81

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang

s.t.

82

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang

s.t.

83

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

84

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

85

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

86

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

87

Antonio Alarcón

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

88

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

89

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

s.t.

90

Reid McClure

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

91

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

92

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

93

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

94

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS-Innova

s.t.

95

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

96

Gerd de Keijzer

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

97

Meng Yan

Hengxiang

s.t.

98

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang

s.t.

99

Chien Chou Chen

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

100

Xiangyuan Li

Giant

s.t.

101

Mehdi Benhamouda

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

102

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang

s.t.

103

Bo Wang

Hengxiang

s.t.

104

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

105

Alessandro Tonelli

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

106

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

107

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

108

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

109

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

+12''

110

Miras Torekhanov

Keyi Look

+14''

111

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

+25''

112

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

+39''

113

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

+42''

114

Luke Mudgway

RTS-Monton

+1' 11''

115

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+1' 15''

116

Islam Usmanov

Keyi Look

+1' 38''

117

Chaohua Xue

Mitchelton Scott

+1' 41''

118

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+1' 49''

119

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

+1' 55''

120

Alder Martz

Attaque-Gusto

+2' 06''

121

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+2' 27'

GC after Stage 3:

474.1 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.968 km/hr

1

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

10hr 46min 58sec

2

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

@ 11sec

3

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

+19''

4

Ben Hill

Attaque-Gusto

+21''

5

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

6

Dylan Page

Switzerland

+23''

7

Michael Freiberg

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

8

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

9

Anthony Giacoppo

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

10

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

+24''

11

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

s.t.

12

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

13

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang

s.t.

14

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

+25''

15

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

16

Guangtong Ma

Hengxiang

s.t.

17

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

+27''

18

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

19

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

20

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS-Monton

s.t.

21

Umberto Poli

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

22

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

23

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

s.t.

24

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

25

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

s.t.

26

Maxat Ayazbayev

Keyi Look

s.t.

27

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

s.t.

28

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

s.t.

29

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

30

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

s.t.

31

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

32

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

33

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

34

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

35

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

s.t.

36

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

s.t.

37

Marc-Antoine Nadon

H&R Block

s.t.

38

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

s.t.

39

Weijie Hou

Keyi Look

s.t.

40

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

41

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

42

Daniel Domínguez

Keyi Look

s.t.

43

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

s.t.

44

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

s.t.

45

Paolo Lunardon

RTS-Monton

s.t.

46

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

47

Mehdi Benhamouda

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

48

Nazaerbieke Bieken

Keyi Look

s.t.

49

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

s.t.

50

Xiaolong Sun

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

51

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

52

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

s.t.

53

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

s.t.

54

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

s.t.

55

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

56

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

s.t.

57

Joonas Henttala

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

58

Gerd de Keijzer

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

59

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

s.t.

60

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

61

Shao Hsuan Lu

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

62

Timothy Guy

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

63

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

64

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

s.t.

65

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

66

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

67

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

68

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

69

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

s.t.

70

Xin Wang

Keyi Look

s.t.

71

Antonio Alarcón

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

72

Sam Brand

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

73

Reid McClure

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

74

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

75

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

76

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

77

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

78

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

s.t.

79

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

80

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

81

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

82

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

83

Fuwen Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

84

Cristián Peña

RTS-Monton

s.t.

85

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

86

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

87

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang

s.t.

88

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

s.t.

89

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

90

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

91

Alessandro Tonelli

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

92

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

93

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS-Innova

s.t.

94

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

95

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

96

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS-Innova

s.t.

97

Bo Wang

Hengxiang

s.t.

98

Meng Yan

Hengxiang

s.t.

99

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+39''

100

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

+27''

101

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

+1' 09''

102

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

+1' 32''

103

Luke Mudgway

RTS-Monton

+1' 36''

104

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang

+2' 20''

105

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang

s.t.

106

Alder Martz

Attaque-Gusto

+2' 33''

107

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

+3' 43''

108

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

+3' 55''

109

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

+5' 35''

110

Tianhao Gu

Giant

+7' 16''

111

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

+7' 55''

112

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+8' 31''

113

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+9' 43''

114

Miras Torekhanov

Keyi Look

+9' 51''

115

Chaohua Xue

Mitchelton Scott

+11' 18''

116

Chien Chou Chen

Attaque-Gusto

+11' 21''

117

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+11' 52''

118

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

+12' 12''

119

Islam Usmanov

Keyi Look

+12' 59''

120

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

+13' 11''

121

Xiangyuan Li

Giant

+13' 42''

Sunday, October 29: Stage 2, Wanning Xinglong - Haikou, 230.2 km

Jakub Mareczko wins stage two and takes over the GC lead.

The race: Here's the organizer's stage 2 report.

Beaten by Jon Aberasturi in the first sprint finish in Wanning-Xinglong, arch favorite Jakub Mareczko got everything right on day 2 as he outsprinted Martin Laas (Delko Marseille), Dylan Page (Swiss national team) and the rest of the field at the end of the longest stage (230km) finishing in Haikou. The Italian from Wilier Triestina also moved into the lead.

127 riders started stage 2 in Wanning-Xinglong. It was a fierce battle until the first intermediate sprint at km 23.7 where Mareczko took one second bonus as he came third behind Ukraine’s Mikhaylo Kononenko (Kolss) and Laas who positioned himself as Delko Marseille’s sprinter for the day while the French team had another option with Latvia’s Emil Liepins. After 42km of racing, a breakaway finally took shape with King of the Mountains Vitaly Buts (Kolss), Benjamin Hill (Attaque Gusto), Ivar Slik (Monkey Town), Ma Guangtong (Hengxiang) and Lukas Meiler (Vorarlberg). A lone chaser for a while, Alexis Cartier (H&R Block) didn’t manage to bridge the gap. The maximum lead of the quintet was 6.20 at km 108.

Hill, Slik and Meiler stayed away after the intermediate sprint at km 123 while Buts and Ma returned to the peloton. Hill also gave up but Slik and Meiler forged on until 84km to go. 75km before the end, another group rode away, composed of Rick Van Breda (Monkey Town), Jordan Cheyne (Jelly Belly) and Fabian Lienhard (Vorarlberg). They made a maximum gap of 3.30 for themselves with 39km to go. Van Breda was first to be swallowed by the peloton led strongly by riders from Wilier Triestina, Kolss and IsoWhey Sports-Swisswellness. Cheyne insisted on his own in the last ten kilometers but was caught under the flamme rouge of the last kilometre.

Put in the right place by Albania’s Eugert Zhupa, who is his guardian angel at Wilier Triestina, Mareczko launched his sprint from very far out but remained in first position until the finishing line to collect his second success at the Tour of Hainan after a first stint in 2015. This is only his first one in the 12th edition with seven more stages to be contested.

Complete results:

230.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.058 km/hr

1

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

5hr 28min 24sec

2

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

3

Dylan Page

Switzerland

s.t.

4

Marc-Antoine Nadon

H&R Block

s.t.

5

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

6

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

7

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

8

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

9

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

10

Michael Freiberg

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

11

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

12

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

s.t.

13

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

14

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

15

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

s.t.

16

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

17

Weijie Hou

Keyi Look

s.t.

18

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

19

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS Monton

s.t.

20

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

21

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

s.t.

22

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

23

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

24

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

s.t.

25

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

s.t.

26

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

s.t.

27

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

28

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

s.t.

29

Maxat Ayazbayev

Keyi Look

s.t.

30

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

s.t.

31

Shao Hsuan Lu

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

32

Ben Hill

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

33

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

s.t.

34

Mehdi Benhamouda

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

35

Umberto Poli

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

36

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

37

Anthony Giacoppo

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

38

Timothy Guy

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

39

Gerd de Keijzer

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

40

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

s.t.

41

Daniel Domínguez

Keyi Look

s.t.

42

Zhaoliang Xu

Giant

s.t.

43

Nazaerbieke Bieken

Keyi Look

s.t.

44

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

s.t.

45

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

46

Xin Wang

Keyi Look

s.t.

47

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

48

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

49

Xiaolong Sun

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

50

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

51

Joonas Henttala

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

52

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

53

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

s.t.

54

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

55

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

56

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

s.t.

57

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

s.t.

58

Guangtong Ma

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

59

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

60

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

61

Antonio Alarcón

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

62

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

s.t.

63

Sam Brand

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

64

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

s.t.

65

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

s.t.

66

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

s.t.

67

Reid McClure

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

68

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

69

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

70

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

s.t.

71

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

s.t.

72

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

73

Paolo Lunardon

RTS Monton

s.t.

74

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

75

Alessandro Tonelli

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

76

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

77

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

78

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

s.t.

79

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

80

Alder Martz

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

81

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

82

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

83

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

84

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

s.t.

85

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

86

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

87

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

s.t.

88

Cristián Peña

RTS Monton

s.t.

89

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

90

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

91

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

92

Fuwen Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

93

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

94

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS

s.t.

95

Bo Wang

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

96

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

97

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

98

Meng Yan

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

99

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS

s.t.

100

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

101

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

102

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

103

Luke Mudgway

RTS Monton

s.t.

104

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

s.t.

105

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

@ 12sec

106

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

+43''

107

Haiwang Liu

Giant

+2' 02''

108

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

+10''

109

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

+3' 16''

110

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

+3' 28''

111

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+4' 16''

112

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

+4' 29''

113

Tianhao Gu

Giant

+6' 49''

114

Chaohua Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

115

Miras Torekhanov

Keyi Look

s.t.

116

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

117

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

s.t.

118

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

119

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

+10' 49''

120

Xiangyuan Li

Giant

+10' 54''

121

Chien Chou Chen

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

122

Mauricio Ortega

RTS Monton

s.t.

123

Islam Usmanov

Keyi Look

s.t.

124

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

+11' 43''

GC after Stage 2:

318.5 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 43.536 km/hr

1

Jakub Mareczko

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

7hr 18min 57sec

2

Jon Aberasturi

Team Ukyo

@ 7sec

3

Martin Laas

Delko-Marseille Provence

+9''

4

Vitaliy Buts

Kolss Cycling

+11''

5

Dylan Page

Switzerland

+13''

6

Michael Freiberg

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

7

Ben Hill

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

8

Žolt Dér

Vorarlberg

+14''

9

Mykhailo Kononenko

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

10

Mirco Maestri

Bardiani-CSF

+15''

11

Guangtong Ma

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

12

Marco Zanotti

Monkey Town

+16''

13

Marco Maronese

Bardiani-CSF

+17''

14

Emils Liepins

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

15

Jonathan Couanon

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

16

Andriy Kulyk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

17

Paolo Simion

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

18

Martin Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

19

Steven Cuesta

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

20

Mehdi Benhamouda

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

21

Ulises Castillo

Jelly Belly

s.t.

22

Umberto Poli

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

23

Polychronis Tzortzakis

RTS Monton

s.t.

24

Gian Friesecke

Vorarlberg

s.t.

25

Enrico Barbin

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

26

Jure Rupnik

H&R Block

s.t.

27

Maxat Ayazbayev

Keyi Look

s.t.

28

Zhiwen Chen

Giant

s.t.

29

Robert Stannard

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

30

Lukas Spengler

Switzerland

s.t.

31

Gerd de Keijzer

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

32

Sven van Luijk

Monkey Town

s.t.

33

Ivar Slik

Monkey Town

s.t.

34

Andriy Vasylyuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

35

Weijie Hou

Keyi Look

s.t.

36

Mikel Aristi

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

37

Sergei Gretchyn

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

38

Zhaoliang Xu

Giant

s.t.

39

Robbie Hucker

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

40

Gordian Banzer

Switzerland

s.t.

41

Xiaolong Sun

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

42

Edoardo Zardini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

43

Daniel Domínguez

Keyi Look

s.t.

44

Benjamí Prades

Team Ukyo

s.t.

45

Joris Blokker

Monkey Town

s.t.

46

Nazaerbieke Bieken

Keyi Look

s.t.

47

Oleksandr Polyvoda

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

48

Joonas Henttala

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

49

Patrick Schelling

Vorarlberg

s.t.

50

Justin Paroz

Switzerland

s.t.

51

Paolo Lunardon

RTS Monton

s.t.

52

Alder Martz

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

53

Travis Samuel

H&R Block

s.t.

54

Christopher Prendergast

H&R Block

s.t.

55

Maarten de Jonge

Monkey Town

s.t.

56

Marc-Antoine Nadon

H&R Block

s.t.

57

Jai Hindley

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

58

Antonio Alarcón

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

59

Reid McClure

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

60

Reinier Honig

Vorarlberg

s.t.

61

Radoslav Konstantinov

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

62

Sam Crome

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

63

Stephan Bakker

Monkey Town

s.t.

64

Asbjørn Kragh

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

65

Jason Lea

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

66

Jordan Cheyne

Jelly Belly

s.t.

67

Jacob Rathe

Jelly Belly

s.t.

68

Dimitri Bussard

Switzerland

s.t.

69

Thierry Hupond

Delko-Marseille Provence

s.t.

70

Joab Schneiter

Switzerland

s.t.

71

Timothy Guy

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

72

Shao Hsuan Lu

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

73

Xin Wang

Keyi Look

s.t.

74

Serghei Tvetcov

Jelly Belly

s.t.

75

Sam Brand

Novo Nordisk

s.t.

76

Martin Lavric

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

77

Lukas Meiler

Vorarlberg

s.t.

78

Anthony Giacoppo

IsoWhey Sports

s.t.

79

Samuel Jenner

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

80

Oleksandr Prevar

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

81

Martin Schäppi

Switzerland

s.t.

82

Wen Chung Huang

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

83

Óscar Pujol

Team Ukyo

s.t.

84

Taylor Shelden

Jelly Belly

s.t.

85

Alessandro Tonelli

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

86

Jianpeng Liu

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

87

Marc de Maar

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

88

Juan José Carrero

Hainan Jilun

s.t.

89

Rick van Breda

Monkey Town

s.t.

90

Alex Turrin

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

91

Fuwen Xue

Mitchelton Scott

s.t.

92

Jacopo Mosca

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

93

Andriy Bratashchuk

Kolss Cycling

s.t.

94

Giuseppe Fonzi

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

95

Simone Sterbini

Bardiani-CSF

s.t.

96

Bo Wang

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

97

Abdullojon Akparov

Beijing XDS

s.t.

98

Yadong Wang

Beijing XDS

s.t.

99

Cristián Peña

RTS Monton

s.t.

100

Meng Yan

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

101

Hang Shi

Giant

s.t.

102

Luke Mudgway

RTS Monton

s.t.

103

Fabian Lienhard

Vorarlberg

+27''

104

Eugert Zhupa

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+29''

105

Joe Cooper

IsoWhey Sports

+1' 00''

106

Zhang Zheng

Hengxiang Cycling

+2' 10''

107

Mingrun Chen

Hengxiang Cycling

s.t.

108

Michael Sheehan

Jelly Belly

+3' 33''

109

Rodrigo Araque

Team Ukyo

+3' 45''

110

Jiankun Liu

Mitchelton Scott

+5' 25''

111

Ilia Koshevoy

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

+7' 06''

112

Tianhao Gu

Giant

s.t.

113

Luca Raggio

Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia

s.t.

114

Eiichi Hirai

Team Ukyo

s.t.

115

Haiwang Liu

Giant

+7' 32''

116

Chaohua Xue

Mitchelton Scott

+9' 27''

117

Miras Torekhanov

Keyi Look

s.t.

118

Alexis Cartier

H&R Block

+9' 53''

119

Benjamin Dyball

Delko-Marseille Provence

+11' 06''

120

Islam Usmanov

Keyi Look

+11' 11''

121

Mauricio Ortega

RTS Monton

s.t.

122

Chien Chou Chen

Attaque-Gusto

s.t.

123

Tanzo Tokuda

Team Ukyo

+12' 02''

124

Xiangyuan Li

Giant

+13' 32''

Saturday, October 28: Stage 1, Wanning-Xinglong Circuit Race, 88.3 km

Jon Aberasturi wins stage one.

The race: Here's the stage story from the race organizer:

Spain’s Jon Aberasturi of Japanese outfit Ukyo claimed his eighth victory of the year, all of them in Asia at six different races as he outsprinted Jakub Mareczko (Wilier Triestina) at the end of stage 1 in the Tour of Hainan in Wanning-Xinglong Australia’s Michael Freiberg (Isowheysports-Swisswellness) rounded out the podium.

It was a short and fast stage with 88.3km to be covered by the 132 starters, including 30 Asian riders. It took thirty kilometers for a breakaway to develop. Four riders made it: Enrico Barbin (Bardiani CSF), Joe Cooper (Isowheysports-Swisswellness), Vitaly Buts (Kolss) and Joab Schneiter (Switzerland). Their maximum advantage was 38 seconds.

There was a spectacular fight in the run in to the only categorized climb of the day with 14.6km to go but Buts was brave enough to fend off the peloton while Benjamin Hill (Attaque Gusto) was second at the top of the hill right behind him. It was all together after the summit with a lots of attacks taking place. Alessandro Tonelli (Bardiani CSF) tried his luck. He was rejoined by Taylor Shelden (Jelly Belly) with 10km to go but it was an inevitable sprint at the end.

Aberasturi took the last curve in the inside 400 metres before the finishing line, building there his success over arch favorite Mareczko who had to settle for second place. Revenge will be in the air for the 230.2km long stage 2 from Wanning-Xinglong to Haikou.